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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

1919 - 2018

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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, (6 June 1919 – 9 July 2018), was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington was Foreign Secretary in 1982 when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington has received more than 1,063,253 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington is the 14,359th most popular politician (down from 13,378th in 2019), the 3,519th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,368th in 2019) and the 473rd most popular British Politician.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington has had the most page views in the with 117,270 views, followed by German (7,814), and Italian (4,896). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (82.79%), Serbian (76.18%), and Basque (75.06%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 14,359 out of 19,576. Before him are Adad-apla-iddina, Edem Kodjo, Silbannacus, Kwon Ki-ok, Laodice of Macedonia, and Germán Riesco. After him are Wihtred of Kent, Gunnar Knudsen, Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes, Hannibal Sehested, Akylbek Japarov, and Tom Thabane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 251. Before him are Richard Todd, Finn Helgesen, George Gerbner, Michel Déon, Grisha Filipov, and Milan Horvat. After him are Ezio Loik, Wu Wenjun, Vicente Asensi, Gisela Uhlen, Alain Bosquet, and David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven. Among people deceased in 2018, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 309. Before him are Zvonko Bego, John Julius Norwich, Jon Hiseman, Mario Segale, Lindy Remigino, and Arthur Barnard. After him are Michael Harner, Davide Astori, Ion Ciubuc, Aureliano Bolognesi, Neagu Djuvara, and Abdelmalek Benhabyles.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 3,519 out of 8,785. Before him are Natalia Tena (1984), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Osbert Salvin (1835), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Norman Smith (1923), and Joe Cole (1981). After him are Peter Whitehead (1914), Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), William Frederick Denning (1848), Mary Stewart (1916), W. J. Coffee (1774), and Charles Jarrott (1927).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington ranks 473. Before him are Keir Starmer (1962), Cherie Blair (1954), Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845), John Julius Norwich (1929), Ken Livingstone (1945), and Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858). After him are Hywel Dda (880), William Huskisson (1770), Roy Jenkins (1920), Stafford Cripps (1889), Jack Straw (1946), and Robin Cook (1946).

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